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Dr. Mary Law

Co-Founder / Emeritus

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Biography

Dr. Mary Law is Co-Founder of CanChild and Professor Emeritus in the School of Rehabilitation ScienceShe is an occupational therapist with graduate training in health research methods and health and social planning. Her research in CanChild studies the factors in communities that help or hinder children with disabilities to participate in daily activities. She is also involved in research to evaluate the effectiveness of rehabilitation services for young children with disabilities. Mary works together with families in doing research to ensure that knowledge is used to support their children's participation.

Area of Focus

Development, validation, and transfer into practice of outcome measures, evaluation of family-centred interventions for children with disabilities

Resources

ABI Trajectories

Trajectories and Consequences: Long-term follow-up of children and youth and their families after acquired brain injury.
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STACK

In the STACK Study (which stands for Screening, Tracking and Assessing Coordination in Kids), students in Grades 4 to 8 in two school boards were screened to identify children who may have coordination difficulties.
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Focus on Function

The Focus on Function Study will compare two treatment approaches (“child-focused” and “context-focused”) that are currently being used for children with cerebral palsy and other developmental and motor delays.
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Additional Measures

Assistance to Participate Scale (APS), Child’s Challenging Behavior Scale (CCBS), Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), Daily Activities of Infants Scale (DAIS), Health Promoting Activities Scale (HPAS), Spinal Alignment and Range of Motion Measure (SAROMM).
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (Concussion) Education

n collaboration with the College of Family physicians and the Provincial MTBI Strategy, the team will work to develop and evaluate user-friendly materials that help physicians in: identification of MTBI; recommendations for return to activity and school; referral guidelines for further services, specifically for children/youth in their practice.
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Quality of Life Training Program

This program will enable trainees to generate urgently needed evidence on rehabilitation, and ensure that research findings are translated into improved quality of life.
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Youth KIT

The purpose of this study is to obtain the ideas, perspectives, and needs of youth with disabilities, parents, and service providers for the content and design of the Youth version of the KIT (Keeping It Together), and to test the utility of the Youth KIT for youth with multiple exceptionalities.
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Family Centred Service Sheets

Family-centred service is an approach to providing services to children with special needs. As suggested by the name of this approach, the family is considered to be at the centre of the services. This makes family centred approaches different than…
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